I brought him here in a mega-trade...No hit in 15 at-bats → 1677 batting average ↓ Why did the bat cool down

I brought him here in a mega-trade...No hit in 15 at-bats → 1677 batting average ↓ Why did the bat cool down

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The batting pace of the main character of the mega-trade is deteriorating. At the opening of the game, he was selected as the main leadoff for the Doosan Bears, drawing high expectations, but his silence over the past five consecutive games has given a red flag to the competition for survival of the first team, let alone the main player.먹튀검증

Professional baseball Doosan Bears outfielder Kim Min-seok started as the seventh left fielder in the first showdown of the season against the Kiwoom Heroes in the 2025 Shinhan SOL Bank KBO League at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 2nd and was silent with no hits and one strikeout in four times at bat.

Kim, who grounded out to the first base at the bottom of the second inning with no runners on, appeared as a leadoff hitter at the bottom of the fourth inning when his team was leading 1-3, and was struck out swinging against rookie Yoon Hyun. He failed to hit a fastball, which was pushed to the middle of the seventh pitch.

At the bottom of the fifth inning with no outs and runners on the first base, when the score was 3-3, he hit Oh Seok-joo's first pitch and retired to left field, and met Kim Sun-ki in the bottom of the seventh inning with one out and no runners, and only grounded out to the first base.

Kim finished the game unfortunately after being replaced by a logistical guard at the beginning of the eighth inning. His batting average for this season fell from 1902 to 167. Why did Kim's batting average during the exhibition games drop sharply to the mid-10% range.

Kim Min-seok is a top prospect in the outfield who was named the third most promising player in the first round of the Lotte Giants in the 2023 Rookie Draft. He proved his competitiveness in the first year of his debut with a batting average of 255, 102 hits, three homers, 39 RBIs and 16 steals in 129 games, and was named the fourth KBO All-Star Best 12 ever, a high school graduate, amid the enthusiastic cheering of Lotte fans. Kim Min-seok had 102 hits in his first year, and even achieved 100 hits in his debut season, the eighth high school graduate in KBO League history.

Last season, he suffered from terrible jinx in his second year and only had a batting average of 211 and six RBIs in 41 games. As he was classified as an outsider to Lotte's Kim Tae-hyung, he had to spend a lot of time in Sangdong, and moved from Lotte to Doosan in November last year when Doosan and Lotte made a massive trade. Doosan made a bold exchange in hopes that Kim Min-seok, dubbed the second Lee Jung-hoo during his Whimoon days, would become the next Jung Soo-bin wearing the Bears' uniform.

Kim Min-seok had a fantastic batting performance. After winning the 2nd Miyazaki Spring MVP award, he continued his momentum at exhibition games and posted a batting average of 333 (ten hits in 30 at-bats), four RBIs, four runs scored, and a slugging percentage of .400 in nine games. He was tested for his potential as the No. 1 hitter who was in charge of Jeong Su-bin, but passed at once, and secured the starting leadoff as well as boarding the opening entry.

It started off to a great start. After hitting two hits and two RBIs in four times at bat, including a triple at the opening game, he had hits in four consecutive games through the game against the Suwon KT Wiz on March 26. However, since his first hit at bat on the day, his hitting ground ball to the second base did not show good performance. As his batting pace sharply declined, he suffered a slump of no hits in 15 times at bat until the game against Kiwoom in Jamsil on the previous day. He failed to have a hit in the last five consecutive games.

Doosan had a gap when foreign hitter Jake Cave, who was in charge of one of the outfield, was canceled due to a cold. As a result, Choo Jae-hyun came to the first team and recorded one hit and one walk from three times at bat the previous day, but it is not enough to fill the vacancy with one Choo Jae-hyun. If Kim Jae-hwan takes over as the designated hitter, he needs a new blood transfusion in two outfield seats except for Jung Soo-bin, and Kim Min-seok should regain his early appearance of the season as soon as possible.